Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head start over G.O.P. Opponent George Murphy, the retired movie-man, and Pierre can use the help. Though he is still the heavy favorite, Salinger has identified himself as a champion of the controversial antidiscrimination Rumford Fair Housing Act. A current battle to repeal it has stirred such soaring passion in Califor nia that he could conceivably become the victim of a white protest vote. At any rate, Pierre would now be able to campaign as the incumbent, with three months of seniority to lay before the voters...
Nevertheless, the measure was approved by the Lords 86 to 15, and now heads for stormy debate in the Commons. One of two reforms approved by the Church Assembly of bishops, clergy and laity, it stirred heated passion because it touches on issues that have long caused strains within the Church of England...
...Sergius Orata the noblest and least appreciated Roman of them all? While more militant Romans were battling the Cimbri along the Rhine toward the end of the 2nd century B.C. and the poet Lucilius was pouring out his satires, Sergius Orata was pouring his considerable fortune into his single passion-the cultivation of the oyster. The ups and downs of that bivalvular mollusk ever since are the subject of Novelist Clark's book-a witty blend of fact, fable and fine poetic nonsense...
...ebbing of life, the first Christian martyr St. Stephen being stoned by a Jerusalem mob, Gregory VII dying on his papal throne. The agony of modern death is shown as well: a Bergamo partisan hanged upside down by the Fascists, Pope John praying in the Vatican Palace before his passion, the body of a mother watched by her weeping child, or an incontrollably tumbling human figure dying in space...
...short stories, The Tomorrow-Tamer, and a travel book, New Wind in a Dry-Land. Although she does not live up to her publishers' extravagant billing, she demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. The character is Hagar Shipley, who mixes past and present indiscriminately, telling now of her efforts to avoid the old ladies' home to which her son wishes to send her, now of the life she led as a girl and a young bride...